Elizabeth Knott

Ancient Mesopotamian art, texts, politics, and religion. Collaborative research. Museums. Views are my own.

[Aqeel almansrawi @AqeelAlmansrawi]

The Hendur-sag Chapel; the cult statue in situ in the sanctuary.
Leonard Wolly 1925.
#archaeology.

[Zainab Mahdi @zainabkmahdi]

New @NahreinNetwork launch!
Share with your Iraqi colleagues 🇮🇶

[ASOR @ASOResearch]

Join us for Dr. Kiersten Neumann's presentation on Contemporary Interventions: The Case for Contemporary Art in Archaeological Museums THIS Thursday, February 22, and 6:00 PM EST via Zoom. Register now here: https://t.co/JmoIydvT2G

[TARII @TARII_Iraq]

TARII SPEAKER SCHOLARSHIP
In an effort to encourage and facilitate more Iraqi participation in international scholarly events and conferences, we welcome financial support requests from residents of Iraq participating in these programs. https://t.co/6nS4g62rOv

[Jaafar Jotheri جعفر الجوذري @JaafarJotheri]

Call for paper:
If you are around or planning to visit #Iraq, then please do come to our fifth international conference at #QadisiyahArc on the 6th of March 2024.
For more details, please DM me or visit the conference website:
https://t.co/up7s4bh069
See you then,

[Malath Feadha @malathali16]

Buffalo 🐃 is one of the most fundamental pillars of life in the Nasiriyah marshlands 🌱🌾 and the rest of Iraq's southern water bodies !!!
🌾🌱🐃🐃🌾🌱

[Jaafar Jotheri جعفر الجوذري @JaafarJotheri]

The white thing in this photo is not snow ❄️, it's actually a salt that has recently invaded the archaeological site.
Now, we at #QadisiyahArc are working on a paper about whether salinity was behind the collapsing of cities and states in the southern Mesopotamian or not 🤔

[ASOR @ASOResearch]

Apply today for the 2024 cohort of the "Digging Up Data: Turning an Idea into Digital Scholarship" program. Participants develop public-facing, engaging, data-driven digital projects to present their research at the ASOR Annual meeting. Learn more below!

https://t.co/OSjbJPqbTS

[The Nahrein Network @NahreinNetwork]

👏 Congrats to @HusseinRidha91 and team from #ThiQar University for publishing his book that documents the #Marsh Arab dialect in Southern Iraq 🌴🇮🇶

[UNESCO @UNESCO]

🔴 BREAKING

New inscription on the #IntangibleHeritage List: Tradition of blacksmithing in Gyumri, #Armenia 🇦🇲.

Congratulations!

https://t.co/c2HMPpStCA #LivingHeritage

[Ancient Near Eastern Studies Würzburg @AVA_Wue]

Interested in #graves, #BronzeAge #Qatna, and #ethnographical interpretation of death? Then join the talk on "The Social Construction of Death and the Hypogeum at Qatna" by Beate Pongratz-Leisten".
🗓️Dec. 11th, 7 - 8pm CET
🛜Registration is required at <https://t.co/XpC79PP8XO>

[Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs]

For the latest volume of Debates in the Digital Humanities, I wrote about the promises and challenges of social media data.

My essay (and the entire volume) is now free and open-access

https://t.co/jWamvioEdK

[Dr. Kiersten Neumann @KNpazuzu]

Honored to be a contributor to this sensorially & beautifully designed volume, which is sold complete with carbon-paper wrapping: “When unpacking, an individual and unique cover design is created for each copy.” 💨 #holysmoke #censers #aromatics #senses https://t.co/JNLiLo6wyp

[Rozhen Kamal Mohammed-Amin @rozhenKM]

It is a pleasure to share our @Cho_Kurdish @NahreinNetwork experience with digital memorialization during this great webinar from @uarizona.
Join us:

📅 12/12/2023
⏰ 10:00 am EST (6:00 pm Iraq time)

Register at https://t.co/WHZNTk3rHy

[CLIR @CLIRnews]

Excited to announce the publication of the Proceedings from the 2022 Digitizing Hidden Collections Symposium, a collection of papers on the impact of the @CLIRgrants program. View the PDF, videos, and more. @MellonFdn #digHC https://t.co/4r7orFY8Ka

[Haider Almamori @AlmamoriHaider]

Today's tour in Babylon with our first year students. South Palace behind us, our students look at the Ishtar gate.

[Kerry Sonia @_kerrodactyl_]

🚨 Job posting: Colby College is hiring a one-year sabbatical replacement in Jewish Studies and Religious Studies for AY 2024-25. Applications due Jan 3. https://t.co/WHqKrI3ABw

[Megan Lewis @digi_hammurabi]

My Akkadian class is now open for registration! https://t.co/qQOqHB6HyH